Wednesday, August 25, 2010

"Hi, Dr. Grumpy. My husband sees you for Parkinson's disease. Anyway, I'm in Calorie Counters, and we have a meeting tonight in the church down the road from your office, and our scale is broken, and I know you and Dr. Pissy have one in your hallway there, and I was wondering if you could meet us at your office and let us in to use your scale for a few minutes."

Seriously? I cannot imagine calling any of my doctors or even my dentist with such a weird request. Hey, my beer fridge is broken and I'm having a party Saturday night. Mind meeting me at your office so we can have the party there and use your fridge? You can have some beer?

I grew up in a small village in the middle of New York State, about 2 hours from Canada. My doctor lived in his office. Seriously. He had an old Victorian house and he and his family lived in part of it and the other half was used as his office. If someone called him wanting to use his office scale, I can see it possibly happening.

It was always really annoying having an appointment with him near dinnertime. I could smell whatever was being cooked from the waiting room and it always made me hungry. AND his cat had the run of the waiting room as well. Every time I was there that damn cat would sit on me. I hope he had no patients who were allergic to cats!

Ahhh, the fun of living in a small village in the middle of nowhere in New York State. ;)

They made this request because wanted to be in denial about what their own scales read, so using your scale (a scale in a doctor's office being the only official one) would delay their facing the "truth."

Hey, I used to wait until my doctor took my blood pressure to get the BP "verdict." WTF? We can take our own blood pressures at Walmart, and for free.

Welcome to my whining!

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